My oldest daughter came along to the supermarket with my wife and me this week, and asked to buy some organic Chai Tea Latte mix. Apparently, it's trendy.

I read the ingredients list, and they make great effort to stress that they use organic tea, organic spices, and organic vanilla beans. Of course, the number one ingredient is water, but the second listed ingredient is "organic evaporated cane juice."

Well, isn't that clever? You squeeze the, um, "juice" from a bunch of sugar cane, then let the juice evaporate until it crystalizes into a solid, and there you have it -- evaporated cane juice. That's probably a lot more healthful (and organic!) than, say, sugar. Because, like, trendy people who know better don't eat sugar.

If there was truth in advertising, that honey they put in it ought to be called "regurgitated bee spit." But, hey, it's organic!